Includes index.

The Saints -- Acacius -- Agatha -- Agnes -- Albert the Great -- Alexander -- Alexis -- Aloysius Gonzaga -- Ambrose -- Andrew the Apostle -- Anne -- Anthony Abbot -- Anthony of Padua -- Apollonia -- Augustine -- Barbara -- Bartholomew the Apostle -- Basil the Great -- Bavo -- Benedict -- Bernard -- Bernardino of Siena -- Blaise -- Bonaventure -- Bridget of Sweden -- Brigid of Ireland -- Bruno -- Cajetan -- Catherine of Alexandria -- Catherine of Siena -- Cecilia -- Charles Borromeo -- Christina of Bolsena -- Christopher -- Clare of Assisi -- Clement -- Cornelius -- Cosmas and Damian -- Diego of Seville -- Dionysius -- Dominic -- Dorothy -- Eligius -- Elizabeth -- Elizabeth of Hungary -- Erasmus -- Eustace -- Florian of Lorch -- The Four Crowned Martyrs -- Frances of Rome -- Francis of Assisi -- Francis Xavier -- Gabriel the Archangel -- George -- Giles -- Gregory the Great -- Helen -- Hippolytus of Rome -- Ignatius of Loyola -- Ildephonsus -- Innocents -- Isidore the Farmer -- Ivo of Kermartin -- James the Greater -- Januarius of Benevento -- Jerome -- Joan of Arc -- Job -- John the Baptist -- John the Evangelist -- Joseph -- Julian the Hospitaller -- Justina of Padua -- Laurence -- Leo the Great -- Leonard of Noblac -- Louis of Anjou -- Louis of France -- Lucy -- Luke the Evangelist -- Margaret of Antioch -- Margaret of Cortona -- Mark the Evangelist -- Martha -- Martin of Tours -- Mary of Egypt -- Mary Magdalene -- Matthew the Evangelist -- Maurice of Agaunum -- Maurus -- Michael the Archangel -- Monica -- Nicholas -- Nicholas of Tolentino -- Paul -- Paul the Hermit -- Peter the Apostle -- Peter Martyr -- Petronilla -- Philip the Apostle -- Raphael the Archangel -- Roch -- Romuald -- Rosalia -- Rose of Lima -- Scholastica -- Sebastian -- Simon the Apostle -- Simon Stock -- Stephen -- Sylvester -- Teresa of Avila -- Theodore -- Thomas the Apostle -- Thomas Aquinas -- Thomas Becket -- Ursula -- Valentine -- Veronica -- Vincent Ferrer -- Vitus -- Wolfgang -- Zeno of Verona -- Protectors and Patrons.

"What does this mean? Who are these people?" Questions like these are often asked by visitors to museums. Today, it is often easier to understand abstract art than it is to understand the meaning of an altarpiece that portrays a seminaked young man shot with arrows; a monk with an ax in his head; a beautiful girl with a wheel in her hand; or another who carries her eyes on a plate. From Agatha to Zeno, this book presents the images and attributes of more than one hundred saints, those most frequently encountered in sacred art, history and legend, tradition and devotional literature. Lavishly illustrated, this book introduces the saints with their identifying attributes, notes on their lives and martyrdoms, and visual references that make it easy to identify their characters and legends and the forms of worship for each.